Watch Movies Online: Jodorowsky’s El Topo
El Topo, by Alexandro Jodorowsky, is perhaps one of the strangest, most beautiful, and most bizarre western films ever made, if not the most bizarre film ever created period. The next time you’re in the mood to watch movies online, if you want something a little different (well, actually, quite a bit different) from the norm, give El Topo a try.
The movie follows El Topo, a black hat gunfighter who goes out with his young son to avenge the death of the mother. As the movie opens, El Topo has his son bury a picture of the mother, symbolically saying goodbye to his childhood and becoming a man. The two travel across the desert on horseback in search of vengeance.
Upon attaining their revenge, the man and child go separate ways. The man leaves the boy in the care of a church while he leaves with his new lover. Here the movie takes a dramatic turn towards a new story development. The woman wants El Topo to kill the four fastest killers in the desert before she can love him, since she refuses to be with anyone but the strongest. They wander for ten years seeking the men out and killing them one by one.
Each of the killers is a fascinating character in their own right, such as the big burly man whose incredible strength also gives him incredible muscle control, so he has the ability to create incredibly delicate, fragile structures out of toothpicks, which Topo cannot even touch without destroying. Then there’s the old man who’s grown into a cynical nihilist after so many years of violence. He uses a butterfly net to deflect bullets, and has no other possessions in the world.
Eventually, El Topo must search for redemption after his girlfriend betrays him, putting him in a coma. He stays in a mountain for several years and wakes up to don a priestly robe and shave his head and become a saint. He hopes to repent for his sinful past, but must first find the capacity for forgiveness within his own soul.
Topo eventually reunites with his adult son, and learns that putting him in the church’s hands did not, in fact, spare him a life of difficulties, and that challenges and violence will hound you no matter who you are or what your background.
The film touches on symbolism from just about every major religion in the history of mankind, from Buddhism to Catholicism to Hinduism. The end result is a film where the symbolism is really an all new beast, in a sense. Because the symbolism draws from so many sources, it’s impossible for anybody but the film’s director to understand them completely, so it really winds up feeling like a whole new religious background invented from the ground up.
El Topo carries an incredibly surreal, eerie feeling. It will shock you, enlighten you, entertain you, educate you and repulse you. It’s a story about love and hate, revenge and redemption, and while the trailer may have been taking it a bit far when it declared that the movie will be the single greatest experience you ever have in your life, the fact remains that it’s a darn great film.
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